On Friday morning, March 31, Li Xiuyuan called Zhou Jianzhong and told him that after the project was completed in the afternoon, he should notify all the villagers of Meilin Village at the construction site to go to Meilin Village to collect their wages after the project was finished that day.
After Zhou Jianzhong relayed the news to the villagers working on the Heishui River embankment, a burst of enthusiastic cheers erupted at the scene. There are currently one hundred villagers from Meilin Village working on the construction site. Behind these one hundred people are one hundred families, which means that at least three or four hundred people will be affected. And these three or four hundred people also have relatives and friends. It can be said that through these one hundred people, the majority of the villagers in Meilin Village can be affected.
Although the village committee had posted a notice that everyone would be paid fifty yuan a day for working on the construction site, no one was notified when the wages would be paid.
People think that, at best, it will be after the dredging project is completed; at worst, it may be one or two months after the project is completed, or even delayed until the end of the year.
However, since the village has posted a notice, everyone is no longer worried about losing the money.
But it's definitely better to get it as soon as possible, since it's always better to have it in your pocket.
As Zhou Jianzhong listened to the cheers from the construction site, his face was full of smiles. As long as the villagers received money, his prestige as the village head would increase, making it much easier to direct the villagers to work.
After making a phone call to Zhou Jianzhong, Li Xiuyuan went to the Finance Office in the central town. One hundred villagers, fifty yuan a day, and as of today, they have worked for nineteen days this month, totaling only 95,000 yuan, less than 100,000 yuan.
Since the project started, the special funds for the construction of the new rural demonstration village have been flowing out in a steady stream, but neither Li Xiuyuan nor Lei Yi are in a hurry about this.
When it comes to engineering projects, what's there to be afraid of if there isn't enough funding? Just settle what you can settle first, and delay what you can delay. In Lei Yi's view, if this million yuan is delayed, it will be enough to finish the initial dredging work.
However, Li Xiuyuan was still very particular, and he wanted to pay the villagers' wages now.
“Mayor Li, if this money is distributed at the beginning, it will have to be distributed at the end of every month. And if money is distributed to the villagers, other people may have their own opinions. Shouldn’t we try to suppress this?” Lei Yi suggested to Li Xiuyuan.
This two-million-dollar project could be completed for one million, not an exaggeration at all, and one million would even be more than enough. It's all about delaying payments, just like Wang Yonghua, who rents construction machinery. He never expects to get paid before the project is finished.
There are also payments to the municipal environmental protection company, payments to the county building materials factory, and even workers' wages, all of which can be delayed.
Of course, this delay is actually using the government's credit as collateral to postpone payment.
An individual certainly couldn't do this kind of thing, but the government would do it with ease. In Lei Yi's view, no one's money should be paid out; it should all be delayed until the project is completed, and then a portion should be paid out appropriately based on the urgency of the situation.
One million is enough. The money for the mid-term project will come in then. We will use the money from the mid-term project, which is the second phase of the project, to pay part of the money for the first phase of the project. The third phase of the project will be handled in a similar way.
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